Quant Data Engineer

Tempest Vane Partners; England; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Tempest Vane Partners seeks a Quant Data Engineering & AI Engineer to join a collaborative team at the intersection of quantitative research, data engineering and AI. You’ll design and build high-throughput data pipelines and AI-enabled tools that support portfolio decision-making.

You will deploy production AI systems, work with TB-scale datasets, and partner with Portfolio Managers and Researchers to uncover alpha opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong Python in large-scale production environments.
• Background in Data Engineering, ML or Quantitative Engineering.
• Experience building distributed data pipelines and large datasets.
• Commercial experience with AI tech, incl. LLMs and RAG.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) and Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering practices and production systems.
• Excellent communication with technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-throughput data pipelines for quantitative strategies.
• Build scalable data platforms for structured and unstructured data.
• Develop AI-enabled tooling to extract insights from large corpora.
• Deploy and optimise LLMs and ML models in production.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers, Researchers and Data Scientists.
• Evaluate AI and quantitative research improvements across the stack.
• Contribute to cloud, data and AI infrastructure decisions.

Skills

Python

Data Engineering

Quantitative Eng

LLMs

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

Spark/Databricks

Airflow/Kafka

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Airflow

Kafka

KDB

LangGraph

MCP

vLLM

Triton

Job description

Our client is a globally recognised investment management firm where technology, data and quantitative research are fundamental to generating investment performance.

As they continue to invest heavily in their systematic and discretionary investment capabilities, they are seeking a Quant Data Engineering & AI Engineer to join a highly collaborative team operating at the intersection of quantitative research, data engineering and Artificial Intelligence.

This is an opportunity to work on some of the industry's most challenging data problems—building large-scale data platforms, developing AI-enabled research tooling and partnering directly with Portfolio Managers to uncover new sources of alpha.

The successful candidate will join a world-class engineering organisation where innovation, experimentation and technical excellence are actively encouraged.

What You'll Get

• Build AI and data platforms used by Quantitative Researchers and Portfolio Managers globally.
• Work on TB-scale datasets spanning structured and unstructured financial data.
• Collaborate directly with investment professionals to identify and develop novel alpha opportunities.
• Design and deploy production AI systems leveraging frontier and open-source models.
• Significant ownership across architecture, engineering and strategic technical initiatives.
• Exposure to large-scale distributed systems, cloud technologies and modern AI infrastructure.
• Competitive compensation, discretionary bonus and an exceptional benefits package.
• The opportunity to work alongside some of the brightest engineers, researchers and investors in the industry.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop high-throughput data pipelines supporting quantitative investment strategies.
• Build and maintain scalable data platforms processing structured and alternative datasets.
• Develop AI-enabled tooling to extract insights from large corpora of unstructured financial information.
• Deploy and optimise LLMs and machine learning models in production environments.
• Engineer robust backtesting and simulation frameworks to accelerate research workflows.
• Partner directly with Portfolio Managers, Quantitative Researchers and Data Scientists to deliver business-critical solutions.
• Evaluate and implement cutting-edge academic and industry research across AI and quantitative finance.
• Contribute to architectural decisions across cloud, data and AI infrastructure.

What You'll Need

• Strong software engineering experience with Python in large-scale production environments.
• A background in Data Engineering, Machine Learning or Quantitative Engineering.
• Experience building distributed data pipelines and working with large datasets.
• Commercial experience with AI technologies, including Large Language Models and RAG architectures.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP or Azure) and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and production systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience within quantitative finance, hedge funds or investment management.
• Knowledge of modern AI tooling (LangGraph, MCP, vLLM, Triton, Fine-Tuning, GraphRAG, etc.).
• Experience with Spark, Databricks, Airflow, Kafka or KDB.
• Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and model optimisation.
• Exposure to systematic trading, alpha research or backtesting frameworks.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.

Interested?

This role would suit an engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems at scale and is excited by the opportunity to combine quantitative finance, data engineering and Artificial Intelligence in a high-impact environment.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on problems spanning distributed systems, machine learning, alternative data, large language models and alpha generation—all within one of the industry's most technologically advanced investment firms.